2016 was a rough year for me and really ate up a lot of my time and energy. I have some more free time now though and I was thinking of starting up a RP. Maybe a HxH one to satiate my HxH fix while we wait for the hiatus to end again. I always liked the Hunters Exam format and could build a simple RP around it. The OP one I tried to make was too big in scale and this one would be smaller.

Not to be a bummer or anything, but what's the point? If it's not something completely new it's going to die before it gets off the ground. Perhaps if you used several GM:s (to match potential demand and prevent a bottleneck in updates) or some very interesting system to use?

Well I have no problem with others GMs if they want to contribute, but I doubt that demand will get too big. I guess the point is that I always liked the Hunter Exam set up for a RP and have been kicking it around my head for a while and I have some free time. If it fails to get off the ground then no harm done. A lot of forum RPing is dying off like ZCOverload said. Even the Batoto one looks to have slowed substantially.

As for a system I'd rather go the simple route. Just a simple 0-100 rank in a few specific categories to give the player an idea of what they are capable of in the RP. The structure of the Exam should contain people enough I think.

Yeah, HxH would have to use the honor system quite a bit, since all the Hatsus are full of conditions and rules. I really love it though, and I'd love to help out if it against the odds picks up steam. I've got a backlog of probably somewhere around 20 characters and Hatsus.

What if you post an interest check before doing any sort of work at all, and then another one after a while — I've noticed people (including me) get really excited when a new RP pops up, but a week or so later people still haven't even completed their CS's. So perhaps you should test people out and see which ones stick around?

Sure, maybe instead of us each trying to work on one solo we should GM one together. Might have a better shot at getting off the ground. I think I'd like to get more of a rough draft done before asking if people are interested though. So we can quickly jump into the RP and there isn't that long period of waiting to get started.

Yeah, Nen abilities might be a problem. One of the reasons I wanted to focus on the Hunter Exam part was because it is a good excuse to have people's nen abilities not exist yet or not be that fully developed. Also it is a good place to keep everyone going after the same goal in a contained area and dump a lot of characters that can be used for anything, like villains or even just fodder, since the Exam can have hundreds of people in it at the start. I was debating on if it should be set before the Ant arc (like an exam before set some time between Ging's exam and Gon's) or after the Ant arc in case maybe someone wanted to RP as some kind of Chimera Ant. I'm open to either.

As for the CS's I was thinking of something very simple. Like even a backstory is optional. Just a name, a bit of other personal info, their nen type (might be fun to have this be random so the player has to work around whatever they get) and then just put points in some simple stats.

It's definitely been awhile since I've been here. I really miss the old days, back before the shutdown, where RPs were going on all the time and the community was lively enough to support them. It really sucks that the community fractured so hard after the shutdown; it never came back together even through this site's efforts. I hate that no copy of the old threads survived, I would love to have some of them if only for posterity. Ah well, that's life I suppose.

In any case, I see that there aren't too many of you left but for those who still come here and are looking for a place to RP I think you might be able to try this place. It seems to have a fairly active RP community and sort of reminiscent of the old OM one. I've personally become more of a tabletop gamer but if that place can keep the old forum RP style going I wish you guys the best of luck.

this forum is already half-dead anyway, short of a group effort to give it more visibility on the whole internet, and to get the stream of new members flowing again(forget the old community that's already lost, they won't be coming back), there is only one direction it can currently go, slowly lose the few remaining members until there is no one left :/

i was never involved with the RP here, but you guys should really look for alternatives, in the while a miracle happens here, or not

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I was discussing with @Ganderath my opening and running short-term campaigns to sort of get both myself and everyone else back in the swing of writing. I've already got a concept for one based on the Gargantia universe. These campaigns would prooobably run like a week at most given constant activity. (Which is a pipe dream but, still.)

I've been working on a Hunter x Hunter RP sort of here and there just for fun. Wasn’t sure if the interest was there to open it, but if some are interested in it I can go ahead and set it up. It would be pretty casual and not have a complex combat system attached to it or anything. It would be more story focused but still with a fair bit of fighting.

The basic premise of it is:

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Set 5 years after Hunter Exam #287 (Gon’s Exam) and is based on Exam #292. The player would make a character and go through the stages of the Exam. It would follow the 287 exam’s formula a bit but with several twists down the road. The players’ characters can use Nen, but aren’t exactly masters at it.

To give the player a better understanding of what their character can do I’d have a few stats each rated from 0 to 10 that players would put points into. Basic stats like Strength, Speed, Perception and Intelligence and two additional Nen stats (Nen Power and Nen Still) to help control Nen abilities. Then the players would pick three Talents (2 good 1 problematic) to help give their character a bit more rounded personality. Isaac Netero at his peak in the CA arc would basically have 10/10 in every stat for a comparison. I’d give stats to most of the main characters at certain points in the series to help give the player some reference and an idea how good/bad the stats are.

That is the beginning of it anyway. Maybe it would be best to move the RP over to the site OmegaChosen linked above, as it is very active, but it would be easier to manage here with fewer people.